Introduction HTTP Cookies
Explore what HTTP cookies are and how they function in web development, especially for session management. Understand why cookies often contain sensitive data such as session IDs and access tokens. Discover the importance of securing cookies to prevent attackers from impersonating users or escalating privileges. This lesson prepares you to implement and protect cookies safely within your web applications.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
What are cookies?
Imagine you are a backend developer who needs to implement sessions in an application. The first thing that comes to your mind is to issue a token to clients and ask them to send this token with their subsequent ...
